Shaving and tray serving appliance



March 2, 1943. c. G. wADsAK 2,312,608

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Patented Mar. 2, 1943 iJNETED eras ear QFFl-QE 2 Claims.

This invention relates to a shaving and tray serving appliance and has for its principal object the provision of a drawer for shaving utensils carried beneath a serving tray and a mirror detachably carried by the appliance, and a foldable frame to carry the tray removably seated thereon.

A further object of this invention is to provide a device as briefly disclosed in the first object that is compactly arranged, inexpensive to manufacture and suitable as an outing convenience and likewise for army service.

These and other objects will herein after be more fully described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, wherein like characters will apply to like parts in the difierent views.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side view of the appliance.

Fig. 2 is an inverted plan of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a folded plan view of the appliance, the drawer partly drawn outward.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional View taken on line 4-4 in Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view of the swivel adjacent the arc of the arms, parts removed for convenience of illustration.

This invention is an improvement over my former allowed patent bearing No. 2,289,945. Said improvements in this application consists of a drawer I slidably carried on guide elements 2 that are secured to and beneath the bottom of a tray 3, said drawer having a plurality of clips 4 secured to the bottom of the drawer and being distributed to provide ample room for shaving utensils such as a razor 5, a box of blades 6, tube of shaving cream 1, tube of tooth paste 8, a tooth brush 9, face powder ID, a soap container II, also a mirror l2 and standard I3 to carry the mirror erect to confront a patron to which the frame of the appliance is attached and being carried by the shoulders of the patron, while the rear portion of the tray will rest against the patron's body, the patron not being shown in the drawings.

The tray heretofore mentioned has a bottom A, rear wall B, front and end walls C, D and E, respectively, the front and end walls being arced to form hooks that engage with the sid and ends of a U-shaped frame [4 as a horizontal support for the tray and its components namely, the drawer and its guides carried by the tray and the said drawer when closed is secured against free opening by a pair of strikers l5 extending downward from the bottom of the tray to frictionally engage with the upper edge of the front end of the drawer to spring to and from engagement therewith by sliding movement of the drawer.

The U-shaped portion of the frame is similar K to that of my said former patent while arm 16 and hooks I! are improved. The connections ofthe arms to the hooks and legs of the U-shaped portion are rule joints as in my former patent and to fold on the frame as shown in Fig. 3 and note the arms each have an offset inward as at G to accommodate for the length of the tray as the hooks must seat on the shoulders adjacent the neck of the patron, furthermore the arms being thus formed will clamp the tray to the U- shaped frame when folded thereover. Another improvement will also be seen that hooks I! are arranged to turn on the vertical axis of the arms to rock toward each other as means to lay them fiat upon the tray when the arms are folded, the swivel joints each consisting of a socket I8 integral with the lower end of arm portion H that is connected to the hook by a rule joint J, said socket to rockably engage on the upper end of arm l6 and being secured thereon by a pin l9 secured to the arm and extending outward through a slot 20 in the wall of the socket, the slot being spaced upward from the lower end of the socket and extending therearound sufficient to permit turning movement of the hook through an arc of degrees to fold the hook as above stated. The mirror 12 has a socket 2| hinged to the back thereof, the socket to removably seat on the upper shouldered end of the standard l3 whereby the mirror may be rocked and turned on the standard to a desired angle. The lower end of said standard is likewise shouldered to engage in a short sleeve 2| that is secured to the U- shaped member, said mirror being thus supported is means to facilitate shaving and the parts thereof to be packed in the drawer when not in use.

While I have shown the drawer slidable into and from the left hand end of the tray, the same may be reversed to the right hand end of the tray if so desired in the course of manufacturing, and such other modifications may be made as lie within the scope of the appended claims.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Paten 1s:

1. In a shaving and serving tray appliance of the class described comprising a U-shaped frame, the legs of the u terminating with a right angle bend at their outer extremities, and an arm hingedly connected to each terminal end of the legs of the U-shaped frame, the hinges being rule jointed, an arcuate hook rule joint hinged to the other ends of each arm, the hooks each also being swiveled to their respective ends of the arms and adapted to turn towards each other when the frame components are folded together, a tray and a drawer slidably connected so that the drawer is positioned beneath the tray and adapted to slide thereunder and outward from the tray, said tray having walls as means to carry the tray and drawer pendantly from the U- shaped frame, and a mirror and means to support the mirror extending upward from the U- I shaped frame and being carried thereby.

2. In a shaving and serving tray appliance, a

tray rectangular in form and having a hook formed on three of its sides by turning the entire portion of the length of the sides outward and downward, the other side arced inward and the tray having a drawer slidably carried beneath the tray, a foldable frame means to carry the tray by engaging its hooks, the frame having arms extending upward at right angle to the frame and being offset inward toward each other, one portion of the frame carried by the arms and being rule jointed and swiveled, and bent to form hooks to engage on the shoulders of a human body, and a removably connected frame placed on the tray opposite the arm, the frame as carrying means for a mirror.

CHARLES G. WADSACK. 

